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From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@m...> > The reason "Namespace" is not in "RDDL" is that resource directories are > themselves independent of namespace URIs. You can insert the XHTML based > RDDL document anywhere you have the term "ResourceDirectory" above and get > exactly the desired functionality. > > It does turn out that this does provide a solution for the otherwise > contensious and nasty problem of what a namespace URI ought resolve to. No. it does not, because the same kind of idea has been mooted time and time again and it is not what a large group of users and developers expect or want, unfortunately. I completely disagree that there should be any expectation of human-readable documentation an http: Namespace URI ref. What should be retrievable should be up to the discretion of the information provider as long as it can be fitted into a general conceptual framework. Even XML Schemas will sometimes be downloaded (e.g. to supply attribute defaults), so to force an extra indirection imposes too much. I like the rddl:resource element and, obviously, I think it is good to have a directory format for related resources, but I don't like the idea that namepace "ought" to equal ExplicitRDDL. I really don't like the idea of partitioning the world into "RDDL-using XML" and "non-RDDL-ing XML", especially when allowing freedom can be reconciled so easily. I don't see that RDDL "solves" the namespaces problem, because the problem is not "what is the best thing a namespace URL ought to point to?" but "how do we support what people are doing and want to do with namespace URIs?" I am not sure how RDDL can flourish if it ignores the people who actually are overloading the namespace URI for retrieving useful things now. Rick Jelliffe
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